Blackout Poem

Take a page · take most of it away

How this works

Paste any text below: a page from a novel, a news story, an old email, anything with a decent mix of words in it. Every word becomes a button. Click the ones you don't want and they go black. What's left is the poem.

Read it through once before you mark anything, and keep the words that catch rather than the ones that explain. You can only keep a word or lose it. You can't move one. That constraint is most of the work.